Hannah Howe

Elizabeth Taylor is on my family tree. Not that one. My Elizabeth married John Teek on 22 January 1758 in Saint James’, Westminster. Interestingly, Elizabeth owned property in her own name, in Westminster.

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Whenever I see him, I always think ”here’s someone who is scared of the truth.”

Snippets from the 1700s

Richard Brakenburgh - May Queen Festival

Oil on canvas, 1700

The company clerks 🤷‍♀️

Television highlights: Big Night Out with Adam Faith and Lionel Blair. Second City Reports - an ironical look at Britain today. BBC2 test broadcast - Spare That Tree.

Radio highlights: Military Bandstand. Hancock’s Half-Hour.

Weather: cloudy. Outlook - mostly dry and sunny. 8c, 46f

“When BBC announcers pronounce Llanelli it comes out in weird and wonderful ways. Yet, these same announcers go to great lengths to correctly pronounce place names in China, Russia and Hungary. Are they taking the Mickey?” - H Williams, Tondu, Glamorgan.

Next week, Mandy flies to Milan for another cabaret engagement. Is she worried about the reaction? “Not at all. They are sensible over there.”

Mandy Rice-Davies has been ordered to leave Turkey because her nightclub act is “immoral”. She complained, “Immoral! My dress stretched from my neck to my ankles. I sang songs like An Englishman Needs Time and A Lady Loves to Love.”

General Gilbert Moncton has criticised the BBC over the depiction of Army officers in plays. He said, “I will give a bottle of champagne to the first writer of a BBC play in which the sexual life of the Army chaps is normal.”

FA Cup Sixth Round Second Replay: Manchester United 5 Sunderland 1. Half-time 0 - 0. Leeds will play a friendly with Juventus on 8 April.

The good name of Rugby Union cannot afford further black marks like the shameful Irish-Welsh brawl in Dublin. Players twice guilty of foul-play of any description must be given their marching orders by the referee.

Every generation produces its own pop music. Some of it is good, some bad. Nobody pretends that the Mersey Sound is immortal melody, but it is a happy, healthy, harmless noise. Today’s youngsters have found a new Beat, and a new wackiness. And why not? They are new youngsters.

Tuesday 10 March 1964

A US report says that 35,000 American soldiers have been put in the wrong jobs, wasting more that £17,143,000. For example, highly-trained helicopter pilots were given jobs as lifeguards, dog handlers and company clerks.

So many great features in Countdown each week. Catch up with the latest issue here.

You can tell this was written some time ago because the reporter is interested in facts.

On This Day in Wales (and Britain)

10 March 1928

Women Rule the Roost

Our Weather

Noon
Overhead: cloudy
Temperature: 11c, 52f
Rain: 0 mm
Wind: Northerly, 15 mph

Great song too.

“Unofficially”.

Radio highlights: The Duchess of Bedford at Home. Human Needs and Social Order.

Weather: sunny spells, widespread frost. Outlook - less cold. 4c, 39f

Television highlights: Come Dancing Final - South London v West Scotland. Race Against the Waters - saving the oldest monuments in the world from flooding. BBC2 test broadcast - Prospecting for Oil.

New - an aluminium strip with teeth for keeping carpets in place. Price 2s 5 1/2d a strip.

Personal Advertisement - Urgently Wanted: back copies of “Carnival” and “Fiesta”. Cash reward. Ring CHA 8262 (London reverse charges).

Are you in possession of “souvenirs” - ashtrays, glasses, beacon globes or notices? Did you climb a lamp-post?

New - a range of pastel plastic bowls, with snap-on lids, for storing food in the fridge. From 1s 9d.

Policemen have been issued with a set of question - 360 of them - to ask every time they arrest someone for drunkenness. The questions include: Were you celebrating a wedding, christening, birthday, funeral or domestic event?

Angry mangelwurzel thrower Miss Brenda Johnson said, “We warned them not to cross our land. They won’t defy us again. I hate all forms of cruel sports - especially fox-hunting.” The fox-hunters scurried away without killing the fox.

For fifteen minutes, fox-hunters were pelted with a volley of mangelwurzels when they charged through a hedge into a field in pursuit of a fox, disturbing 100 ewes who were lambing.

Accompanied by a warlock called Charles, Mrs Bone explained how witches meet, naked, with the high priestess, wearing blue and green garters on their left thighs. “We try to invoke powers to do good,” she said.

Mrs Eleanor Bone of Tooting, the liaison officer of the covens, said, “There is no such title as “Queen”. And Mrs Wilson only became a witch in 1960.”

Monday 9 March 1964

The witches of Britain are in uproar over Mrs Monique Wilson of Glasgow’s claim that she is the “Queen of Witches”. Mrs Wilson claims that Dr Gerald Gardner, the unofficial leader of Britain’s witches, left her the title in his will.

It’s Monday, but still time to catch up with Supermarionation Sunday…